Tag Archives: neocons
Days of Rage
Neoliberalism, with its emphasis on markets rather than human needs, is finally getting the appropriate response. Days and nights of rage. There are currently widespread riots in France. The triggering event was police brutality: Rioting then spread to Spain and … Continue reading
The Resistance
The donkeys are already informing us that their first priority will be to super-size US support for Ukraine. Democrats plot major escalation of Ukraine war after midterm election. Fucking Democrats! While cynically appealing to working-class anger over the cost of … Continue reading
Satanic Kingdom
Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), the Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia, has managed to make Trump and Netanyahu look like geo-strategic geniuses with his decision to restart a war with Ansar Allah. What’s crazy is that 3 years … Continue reading
Never gonna change
Our elite have been marinating in a vat of jingoism, ignorance and hubris. Of course, it’s a bi-partisan effort because the Democratic party does not represent a sane or credible alternative to the warmongering lunacy of the Republicans. Let’s start … Continue reading
The Doom Loop
The AI freakout is the latest doom loop where the sky is falling, the dead are rising and it’s the end of the world, this time because AI will kill us all in our beds at night. Or something. I’m … Continue reading
Jersey
I saw this from Amy Walter at the Cook Political Report and laughed. “But in this era of deep and hardened partisanship, real world events don’t have the political impact that they once did, with voters more willing than ever to … Continue reading
Instruments of Statecraft
On the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in 2001 it seems an appropriate moment to examine how the US deploys terrorists as instruments of statecraft. Before we get to 9/11 there’s some important contextual history. … Continue reading
The man of integrity
Who runs the Department of War? Well, it’s probably not the drunken rapist–Kegsbreath, even though his name appears at the top of the flow chart. However, Kegsbreath does make a good foil for the true leader of the Pentagon, whom … Continue reading
The accidental anti-imperialist
I’m sure that wasn’t his intent but Trump is turning out to be the accidental anti-imperialist president. The turn of events is quite ironic since he based his second coming on emulating William McKinley, our first imperialist president. But Trump … Continue reading
The Merger
The US House of Representatives just passed a bill merging the US military with Israel’s. The House on Wednesday passed its version of the massive $1.15 trillion 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes Section 219 (formerly Section 224), … Continue reading
